Dustin Rhodes Will Return to WCW on Monday

On the Thursday edition of WCW Live, Vince Russo revealed that Dustin Rhodes will be back in WCW this Monday on Nitro. Rumors have been swirling that he will drop his "American Nightmare" persona and re-debut as a Goldust clone. "Platinum" is the name most reports have suggested will be used.

Dustin's new gimmick return has been in the works for a while, but it keeps being pushed back. There's always the chance that it will be bumped off again on Monday, but with Lex and Liz off the Great American Bash pay-per-view, it wouldn't hurt to have someone new fill up a suddenly empty slot.

As the "American Nightmare" Dustin Rhodes, the former Goldust played a hard-boiled Texas badass. A similar formula has worked wonders for Steve Austin and The Acolytes in the WWF, but Russo obviously wants to take Rhodes in a different direction. He has openly stated in the past that he feels Dustin is better off being someone besides himself.